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Angela Merkel's expression gives a lot away as she listens to Ireland's prime minister Enda Kenny during the European Union leaders' summit in Brussels Photograph: Francois Lenoir/Reuters

Not much further to France: Australia's Cadel Evans rides through Liège in Belgium during a training session two days before the start of the 99th Tour de France
Photograph: Lionel Bonaventure/AFP/Getty Images

The new Bomber Command memorial at Green Park in London has been unveiled, remembering the 55,573 airmen of Bomber Command who lost their lives in the second world war Photograph: Ian Gavan/Getty Images

Nothing's half as nice as Britain in June: these golfball-sized hailstones fell in Belton, Nottinghamshire, as heavy rain and thunderstorms battered parts of central and northern England Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA

A walk in the superwoods: visitors in the towering Supertrees Grove in the Garden by the Bay in Singapore. The 101-hectare gardens include two greenhouses and 220,000 plants from almost every continent Photograph: Roslan Rahman/AFP/Getty Images

Only Angela's not worried: protesters wearing strange body stockings and masks of François Hollande, Angela Merkel, Mario Monti and David Cameron demonstrate in front of the Council of the European Union headquarters Photograph: Keystone/Rex Features

A very wet Glenn Chambers carries the Olympic flame on the torch relay leg between Edwinstowe and Mansfield, as torrential rain swept across parts of the country - again Photograph: Chris Radburn/LOCOG/PA

Meanwhile, it's a lovely day for some at Henley Royal Regatta. Held since 1839, this social and sporting event is a highlight of 'the Season' and takes place on Henley Reach, a stretch of the Thames in Oxfordshire Photograph: Chris Jackson/Getty Images

Flames rise from an oil tanker reportedly carrying oil for Nato forces, after it was attacked by suspected Taliban militants in Baghlan province, Afghanistan Photograph: Naqeeb Ahmed/EPA

It's going to be a hot one. Service stewards gather for a group photograph on centre court during day four of the Wimbledon tennis championships Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA

Boris Johnson waves from a carriage of the Emirates Air Line, Britain's first urban cable car that runs across the river Thames
Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the Guardian

The cable car runs from Greenwich to the Royal Docks Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA

A shop worker laughs, possibly at the madness of the June weather, as she walks through flash flooding after a torrential downpour in the Staffordshire village of Penkridge Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

This may look like a bronze sculpture but is actually two models wearing greasepaint during the Hit The Pavement event hosted by MAC Pro at Shoreditch Underground station
Photograph: Ian Gavan/Getty Images

This aerial photograph shows the scenes of devastation in a residential area of Colorado Springs that was destroyed by the Waldo Canyon wildfire. More than 30,000 people have been displaced by the fire described by the state governor as 'the worst fire season in the history of Colorado' Photograph: John Wark/AP

It can't be a good idea to go around waving a gun, albeit a water pistol, outside the Ukranian parliament. Police arrested this man and other protesters who were trying to get into the presidential office in Kiev on Constitution Day Photograph: Sergey Dolzhenko/EPA

There are some interesting athletics photographs around at the moment; maybe photographers and athletes alike are having their final practice before the Olympic Games next month. Here Anna Maria Pinero of Spain competes during the women's pole vault qualifying event at the European athletics championships in Helsinki Photograph: Dominic Ebenbichler/Reuters

Bolivian riot police surround themselves with protection as they take position on a street in La Paz during a protest by Amazonian indigenous people. The protest is aimed at defending the territory of Isiboro Secure national park against the planned construction of a highway through its centre Photograph: Gaston Brito/Reuters

Members of America's only all-female chain gang march to a bus that will transport them to their worksite outside Estrella jail in Phoenix, Arizona. With a few exceptions, chain gangs were abandoned in the US by 1955, but Arizona reintroduced the practice in 1995. The women volunteer for the duty, looking to break the monotony of jail life. Most are in for minor convictions and are housed at a collection of surplus military tents erected next to Maricopa county jail to ease overcrowding Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA

A young adult male orangutan is captured for relocation after its home forest was burned and cleared for palm oil plantations in Tripa, Aceh province, Indonesia. The Tripa peat swamp forest supports the highest density of Sumatran orangutans on Earth, but is still being cleared by palm oil companies
Photograph: Paul Hilton/EPA